"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly in taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon I am sure saith It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence. That which is past is gone and irrevocable; and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labor in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit or pleasure or honor or the like. Therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?"